Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try.

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.